Oral history interview with Jonathan Burns, 1981 July 21.

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Oral history interview with Jonathan Burns, 1981 July 21.

Interview with Jonathan Burns, an Army veteran (200th Coast Artillery, New Mexico National Guard) and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Burns discusses the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942-1944), Bilibid Prison, Manila (1944), the hell ship to Japan (1944), Moji (1944-1945), A-bomb damage at Nagasaki, and his liberation.

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